The cnews upgrade in bo is dangerous if you do not back up your /var/lib/news directory first! It will leave SOME of your configuration files but will overwrite others with the default cnews files.
Files that get changed are (at least) sys, batchparms, mailpaths. It seems to leave explist alone. I have not looked at controlperm yet. Is there any way that the maintainer can check for an existing set of these files and at least copy the existing ones safely out of the way instead of overwriting them? It also seems to use a different overview strategy with a duplicate tree under /var/spool/news/over.view instead of a simply .overview in each of the existing news directories. This resulted in errors every time newsrun is executed (could not open /var/spool/news/over.view/news/group/name/.overview ) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
